By Joseph Goldstein
Dan Quinn was relieved of his Special Forces command after a fight with a U.S.-backed militia leader who had a boy as a sex slave chained to his bed. Kirsten Luce for The New York Times More...

The 9/11 attack was just the beginning of the bloodletting and the wanton abuse of law to extend unaccountable state authority
By Nafeez Ahmed
Fourteen years ago, 2,996 people were murdered when four civilian More...

By Donald Kirk
The danger of the fighting in Afghanistan spilling across the mountainous western borders of Pakistan confronts a society that’s also in a perpetual standoff with India and roiled by simmering discontent More...

By Khalid Iqbal
During the recent Pakistan-Turkey summit, both sides explored options to assist Afghanistan in reaching a peace agreement with the Taliban. Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu had an extensive agenda, More...

The Taliban has outlasted the world’s most potent military forces and its two main factions now challenge the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan. As U.S. troops draw down, the next phase of conflict will More...

The deal to swap a US soldier for five Taliban prisoners may be evidence of the pragmatism underlying Obama’s foreign policy
By Mary Dejevsky
A US army handout of Bowe Bergdahl before his capture. ‘It is More...

Pakistan’s Army Has Lost Roughly Twice as Many Soldiers in the Conflict with Taliban Fighters as the U.S.
By Yaroslav Trofimov
Each day, Cpl. Hamid Raza helps strap Cpl. Mohammed Yakub to a physiotherapy More...

By Niloofar Qureshi
With the killing of a Major General alongwith another officer and one soldier in a roadside bomb attack in the Upper Dir district of the restive Northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province More...

By Glenn Greenwald
Portraying Islam as a militant religion while ignoring horrific violence brought by the US to the Muslim world is dangerously self-flattering and self-delusional.
News reports purporting to describe More...